If one was going to be optimistic, you can figure with the treatment and recovery-time expected for a 80-year old guy...I would figure a minimum of six to eight months. They can forget about him quietly leaving or retiring, and just assume that it’s six months without him around in the Senate (thus killing off the health-care episode for 2017).
“and just assume that it’s six months without him around in the Senate”
Exactly. That will paralyze the senate and you can forget about tax reform and the repeal of Obamacare. Not to mention that McCain is also the chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
McCain will probably announce his retirement soon.
I give him 6 weeks
My best friend was 24, same Cancer, he lasted a little more than 6 months, last 4 months are not pretty.